Jeff "Jmunney" Malone's Self-Styled "Expert" Thoughts on Movies, TV, Music, and the Rest of Pop Culture
May 10, 2019
Cinema, Entertainment To-Do List, Television Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Detective Pikachu, Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Michael Torpey, Paid Off, Paid Off with Michael Torpey Leave a comment
CREDIT: Warner Bros.
Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out.
Movies
–Detective Pikachu (Theatrically Nationwide) – He’s gonna find the clues!
TV
–Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 6 Premiere (May 10 on ABC)
–Paid Off Season 2 Premiere (May 13 on truTV)
May 5, 2019
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CREDIT: Will Heath/NBC
Jeffrey Malone watches every new episode of Saturday Night Live and then organizes the sketches into the following categories: “Love It” (potentially Best of the Season-worthy), “Keep It” (perfectly adequate), or “Leave It” (in need of a rewrite, to say the least). Then he concludes with assessments of the host and musical guest.
Love It
Holes – So Beck and Kyle discovered that clothes are just holes to cover up your bodily holes, and then they made a song about it, and now we get to bask in the joy of their wonder. It sounds like a cheesy ’80s power ballad, although the sartorial style is more reminiscent of Michael Bolton and other over-the-top soft rockers. And there’s even some “We Didn’t Start the Fire” influence there with the rhyming of Federico Fellini and Roberto Benigni. Wonderfully singular.
May 3, 2019
Cinema, Entertainment To-Do List, Podcasts, Television Charlize Theron, Long Shot, Podcasts, Primetime, Primetime podcast, Ron Burgundy, Seth Rogen, The Ron Burgundy Podcast, Todd VanDerWerff, Will Ferrell Leave a comment
CREDIT: Philippe Bossé
Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out.
Movies
–Long Shot (Theatrically Nationwide)
Podcasts
–Primetime (Premieres May 9) – Hosted by Vox Cultural Critic Todd VanDerWerff!
–The Ron Burgundy Podcast – This premiered back in February, but somehow I’m only realizing just now that it’s available.
April 26, 2019
Cinema, Entertainment To-Do List, Music, Television 2019 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Avengers: Endgame, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, Knock Down the House, Not the White House Correspondents' Dinner, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Samantha Bee Leave a comment
CREDIT: Disney/Marvel Studios
Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out.
Movies
–Avengers: Endgame (Theatrically Nationwide)
–Knock Down the House (Starts Streaming May 1 on Netflix) – Political doc about AOC and other up-and-comers!
TV
–Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner (April 27 on TBS) – Samantha Bee and the rest of the Full Frontal crew are at it again.
Music
-2019 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (April 27 on HBO) – Radiohead, Roxy Music, and Janet Jackson, oh my!
April 19, 2019
Cinema, Entertainment To-Do List, Music, Television Cage the Elephant, Hail Satan?, I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson, Little Woods, Social Cues, The Curse of La Llorona, Tim Robinson Leave a comment
CREDIT: Netflix
Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out.
Movies
–The Curse of La Llorona (Theatrically Nationwide) – I have to watch all the horror!
–Hail Satan? (Limited Theatrically)
–Little Woods (Limited Theatrically)
TV
–I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson (Premieres April 23 on Netflix) – This looks crazy.
Music
-Cage the Elephant, Social Cues
April 14, 2019
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CREDIT: Rosalind O’Connor/NBC
Jeffrey Malone watches every new episode of Saturday Night Live and then organizes the sketches into the following categories: “Love It” (potentially Best of the Season-worthy), “Keep It” (perfectly adequate), or “Leave It” (in need of a rewrite, to say the least). Then he concludes with assessments of the host and musical guest.
Love It
The Actress – When you’re an actor, I imagine you take your rewarding parts wherever you can find them. So as mundane and ridiculous as this sketch is, it strikes me as ringing 100% true. Not in the sense that Emma Stone actually has experience playing a non-sexual role in a porn video, but in the sense that she, and so many others, have surely had bizarre moments of character discovery, or have at least been fighting for them. That feeling of vulnerability is powerful, and I’m glad we got to witness it.
April 12, 2019
Cinema, Entertainment To-Do List, Television Bless This Mess, Her Smell, Missing Link, Octaman, Rifftrax, Rifftrax Live, Rifftrax Live: Octaman, Teen Spirit Leave a comment
CREDIT: Rifftrax
Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out.
Movies
–Her Smell (Limited Theatrically)
–Missing Link (Theatrically Nationwide)
–Teen Spirit (Limited Theatrically)
–Rifftrax Live: Octaman (One Night Only on April 18)
TV
–Bless This Mess Series Premiere (April 16 on ABC) – Another ABC sitcom to sample!
April 7, 2019
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CREDIT: Will Heath/NBC
Jeffrey Malone watches every new episode of Saturday Night Live and then organizes the sketches into the following categories: “Love It” (potentially Best of the Season-worthy), “Keep It” (perfectly adequate), or “Leave It” (in need of a rewrite, to say the least). Then he concludes with assessments of the host and musical guest.
Love It
Terry Fink – One successful formula for a hilarious Update guest segment is a character who has a habit or personality quirk that justifies a bunch of wacky dialogue. And we have an excellent new example from Alex Moffat as film critic Terry Fink, who makes sure to be tripping on plenty of LSD whenever he sees a new flick (or just its poster in the subway or the middle of Times Square). Thanks to him, I now know about Dumbo‘s “touching jihadi message.”
April 5, 2019
Cinema, Entertainment To-Do List, Television Brie Larson, Fosse/Verdon, High Life, Killing Eve, Shazam!, Unicorn Store Leave a comment
CREDIT: Alcatraz Films/Wild Bunch/Arte France Cinema/Pandora Produktion
Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out.
Movies
–High Life (Limited Theatrically)
–Shazam! (Theatrically Nationwide)
–Unicorn Store (Streaming on Netflix) – Brie Larson’s directorial debut!
TV
–Killing Eve Season 2 Premiere (April 7 on BBC America)
–Fosse/Verdon Series Premiere (April 9 on FX) – I love to dance.
March 31, 2019
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CREDIT: Megan Krause/NBC
Jeffrey Malone watches every new episode of Saturday Night Live and then organizes the sketches into the following categories: “Love It” (potentially Best of the Season-worthy), “Keep It” (perfectly adequate), or “Leave It” (in need of a rewrite, to say the least). Then he concludes with assessments of the host and musical guest.
Love It
Discover Card – There’s a current ad campaign about people reaching their doubles at customer service, and there’s a current hit horror movie about people being targeted by their doubles. Somebody at SNL made the connection and astutely decided, “Let’s mash ’em up!” And lo and behold, we have this hilarious commercial parody in which it turns out that the you’s of Discover Card are actually the Tethered of Us, and Ego Nwodim finally gets a showcase performance.
It’s good to know that everyone can be so wonderfully, specifically overwrought in the Test Prep sketch.
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